Hegel

Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich . 1770--1831, German philosopher, who created a fundamentally influential system of thought. His view of man's mind as the highest expression of the Absolute is expounded in The Phenomenology of Mind (1807). He developed his concept of dialectic, in which the contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis), in Science of Logic (1812--16)

The totality of western metaphysics that came into being later as the figment that Derrida would unravel can then be unraveled also in Schlegel's prior reading of Plato, making it--like Schelling's Philosophy of Art--a missing piece of the standard histories modeled on the figure of Hegel (who does not of course survive as such in this book) that we would do well to recover more habitually than we do.

An historical reading of Hegel means that we must regard his philosophy in light of Kant's epistemology (3) In reforming Kant's understanding of consciousness and experience, Hegel attempted to restore some sense of classical metaphysics to philosophy in that he historicized the Logos.

Since Marx and Hegel, political philosophers from Spencer and Croce to Lenin and Spengler produced variations of these early theories, but after World War II, the effort was largely abandoned because it became identified with the nightmares of Nazism and Stalinism.

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